Publications by Beatrice Barra

Spatiotemporal Maps of Proprioceptive Inputs to the Cervical Spinal Cord During Three-Dimensional Reaching and Grasping

Auke Ijspeert, Shravan Tata Ramalingasetty, Marco Capogrosso, Nathan Antoine Greiner, Beatrice Barra, Pierre Charles Marie Kibleur, Sara Conti

Proprioceptive feedback is a critical component of voluntary movement planning and execution. Neuroprosthetic technologies aiming at restoring movement must interact with it to restore accurate motor control. Optimization and design of such technologies de ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Soft, Implantable Bioelectronic Interfaces for Translational Research

Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Giuseppe Schiavone, Jocelyne Bloch, Ismael Seanez Gonzalez, Sébastien Jiguet, Ivan Furfaro, Simon Borgognon, Evgenia Vladimirova Roussinova, Marco Capogrosso

The convergence of materials science, electronics, and biology, namely bioelectronic interfaces, leads novel and precise communication with biological tissue, particularly with the nervous system. However, the translation of lab‐based innovation toward cli ...

Wiley2020

A system for providing neuromodulation, especially neurostimulation

Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso, Beatrice Barra, Katie Zhi Zhuang

A system (10) for providing neuromodulation, especially neurostimulation, comprising - at least one neuromodulator (12) for neuromodulation of the cervical spinal cord, - at least one dorsal neuromodulation array (14) for providing neuromodulation to the c ...

2020

Automatic clustering of spinal reflexes evoked by epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical spinal cord in non-human primates

Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Giuseppe Schiavone, Jocelyne Bloch, Marco Capogrosso, Beatrice Barra, Katie Zhi Zhuang, Sara Conti

Epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord elicits motor responses by recruiting large sensory afferents in the posterior roots. Divergence of excitatory inputs provided by these fibers generates a variety of shapes, latencies and amplitudes in the ...

2019

Microneurography as a tool to develop decoding algorithms for peripheral neuro-controlled hand prostheses

Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Marco Capogrosso, Francesco Maria Petrini, Jacopo Rigosa, Beatrice Barra, Alessandra Pampaloni

Background:The usability of dexterous hand prostheses is still hampered by the lack of natural and effective control strategies. A decoding strategy based on the process-ing of descending efferent neural signals recorded using peripheral neural interfaces ...

2019

Selective Recruitment of Arm Motoneurons in Nonhuman Primates Using Epidural Electrical Stimulation of the Cervical Spinal Cord

Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Giuseppe Schiavone, Jocelyne Bloch, Marco Capogrosso, Beatrice Barra, Camille Roux

Recovery of reaching and grasping ability is the priority for people with cervical spinal cord injury (SCI). Epidural electrical stimulation (EES) has shown promising results in improving motor control after SCI in various animal models and in humans. Nota ...

2018

Long-term functionality of a soft electrode array for epidural spinal cord stimulation in a minipig model

Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Giuseppe Schiavone, Jocelyne Bloch, Marco Capogrosso, Nicolas Vachicouras, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Florian Dylan Fallegger, Xiaoyang Kang, Beatrice Barra

Long-term biointegration of man-made neural interfaces is influenced by the mechanical properties of the implant materials. Substantial experimental work currently aims at replacing conventional hard implant materials with soft alternatives that can favour ...

IEEE2018

Long-term functionality of a soft electrode array for epidural spinal cord stimulation in a minipig model

Giuseppe Schiavone, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Jocelyne Bloch, Marco Capogrosso, Nicolas Vachicouras, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Florian Dylan Fallegger, Beatrice Barra, Xiaoyang Kang

IEEE2018